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What does your passport mean to you? It might represent your nationality or your ability to live and work in a certain country. Perhaps it reminds you of having your passport photo taken – a traumatic experience even for the…

Ruth Bielaski Shipley (April 20, 1885 – November 3, 1966) was head of the Passport Division of the United States Department of State for 27 years from 1928 to 1955. She became head of the Passport Division in 1928, the…

Major Ian Pirie was a British agent working for the Secret Service – SOE. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organization. Major Pirie was stationed in Crete. Niki Dermetzi, a devastating blonde at the Argentina…

INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database enables INTERPOL National Central Bureaus and other authorized law enforcement entities (such as immigration and border control officers) to ascertain the validity of a travel document in seconds. The SLTD database was…

Update 18 September: unsold! Unique passport photo of the exceedingly rare British writer British passport page, signed below in fountain pen. The page bears two ink stamps indicating the date of issue, April 18, 1933. In fine condition, with the…

Early years of the Canadian passport The story of the Canadian passport is entwined with Canada’s history, both as a colony of Great Britain and as a neighbor of the United States. Before 1862, Canadians, as British subjects, could travel…

NZten.com is the website which aims to bring back the 10 Year New Zealand Passport NZ passports were once valid for 10 years. This changed in 2005 when the validity was cut to 5 years but the passport fees were…

Early Australian passports are rare to spot. I had only this one in the past. If your collection focus is Australia then you should grab such early documents whenever they appear. The Australian Government first started issuing passports in 1901…

If the “Roaring Twenties” conjures up images bobbed-hair flappers and couples dancing to jazz music, you may have F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) to thank. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels,…

Here in the category “COLLECTIBLES” you will find some of my own documents which I can offer from my archive so you can enrich your fine own collection. I assure you my old travel documents are collectibles you don´t find…

Country: Chile Pages: 44 Year: 1999 Visas: Paraguay Condition: Almost mint Revenues: no Description: Another fantastic collectible from my archive! This diplomatic passport was issued to the wife of a councilor at the Chilean embassy in Paraguay. Price: $130 Shipping:…

Country: United Nations Pages: 48 Year: 1963 Visas: Special visa for Congo Condition: Excellent Revenues: no Description: Another fantastic collectible from my archive! United Nations passport for a public works expert showing his passport picture and from his wife. Rare…